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Determinants and strategies for the development of container terminals

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The paper examines an important player in the container industry: the container terminal. We evaluate how terminal efficiency operation is affected by the following factors: terminal type, operation type, scale efficiency and returns to scale. In so doing, we test how the typology and operation of terminals and the level of scale efficiency that a terminal can achieve, represent significant factors in the development and growth of the container terminal industry. The analysis is based on the assessment of 165 container terminals worldwide. We develop the estimation through the application of stochastic frontier analysis. We demonstrate that container terminals are more efficient than multi-purpose terminals, and that, compared with local operators, global terminal operators do not have a dominant position in international maritime trade in terms of productivity and efficiency. However, global terminal operators appear to be more dominant than local operators when we examine the Mediterranean Basin. In the final part of the paper we suggest how resource-constrained container terminals may improve their scale efficiency and identify general strategies related to container terminal investments.

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Determinants and strategies for the development of container terminals

No. Panggil

ATC LO MED d

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United Kingdom : Springer., 2012

Deskripsi Fisik

16 p.

Bahasa

English

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LO

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online resource

Edisi

2012

Subjek

Container Terminal
Stochastic analysis
Global operator
Scale and technical efficiency

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Francesca Medda

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